{"id":5339,"date":"2019-07-25T09:06:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T08:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=5339"},"modified":"2019-07-25T09:06:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T08:06:25","slug":"the-class-choir-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=5339","title":{"rendered":"The Class Choir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>St Clement\u2019s Church, Hastings, Wednesday 24 July 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Class Choir gave their summer concert to a very relaxed audience on a very warm evening. This was a collection of familiar songs and some which were new to the choir if not to those of us enjoying them.<\/p>\n<p>They got off to a bright start with <em>Here comes the sun<\/em> \u2013 not always a wise choice in the summer but on this occasion spot on. <em>Mr Blueskies <\/em>seemed equally apt, and its unaccompanied harmonies were impressive. Conductor John Cornford takes <em>Both sides now<\/em> at quite a pace but relaxation followed in <em>Wade in the Water. <\/em>Two blockbusters followed in quick succession \u2013 <em>I will follow him <\/em>and <em>Never enough \u2013 <\/em>before a more reflective version of Adele\u2019s <em>When we were young. <\/em>We\u2019ve heard <em>The Rhythm of Life<\/em> at previous concerts but it was none the less welcome before the more complex arrangement of <em>Symphony<\/em>. Coming to the end of a fine hour of music making, they climaxed with <em>Don\u2019t stop me now<\/em> but ended on a more reflective if sentimental note with <em>Candle on the water.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The group seems to go from strength to strength \u2013 though is always open to new members who are welcome to join their numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Clement\u2019s Church, Hastings, Wednesday 24 July 2019 The Class Choir gave their summer concert to a very relaxed audience on a very warm evening. This was a collection of familiar songs and some which were new to the choir &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=5339\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5340,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions\/5340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}